Will pthreads become obsolete once std:thread makes into C++Ox [closed]

Answer 1

C isn't going away. POSIX isn't going away. Multithreaded code written in C for POSIX isn't going away. So pthreads isn't going away.

Many implementations of std::thread will use pthreads under the hood.

"The Pthreads API is defined in the ANSI/IEEE POSIX 1003.1 - 1995 standard." -- POSIX Threads Programming https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads/